Hi curly, I would for the moment give her the benefit of the doubt, you have no proof she has done anything wrong, so untill she does steal something indeed if she has ever done this, it is a very big thing to say so and so has done this, but please don't say anything, if the previous owner has proof why hasn't she called the police in to investigate,? you can always install a hidden camera, but if she ever found out and the poor thing had done nothing wrong how would you feel ? as far as i can see it is all hearsay, the only other thing you can do is to make her redundant as alinic says, but if you do that you can't then employ somebody else straight away in the same capacity, lot to think about for you, good luck, Ray